Detail View: Archivision Base to Module 13: 'Solair' Chair
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Collection:
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Archivision Base to Module 13
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Preferred Title:
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'Solair' Chair
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Alternate Title:
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Chaise 'Solair'
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Image View:
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Overall view from front (on display with a lamp fixture)
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Creator:
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Fabio Fabiano (American designer, 1939-2012); Michel-Ange Panzini (Canadian designer, born 1942)
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Location:
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repository: Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec (Québec, Québec, Canada) 2006.572
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Location Note:
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National Battlefields Park; 179 Grande Allée Ouest
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GPS:
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+46.801106-71.225064
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Date:
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1972 (design)
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Cultural Context:
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Canadian
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Style Period:
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Twentieth century
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Work Type 1:
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chair (furniture form)
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Classification:
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Decorative Arts, Utilitarian Objects and Interior Design
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Material:
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polypropylene; painted wrought iron
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Technique:
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casting (process); construction (assembling); metalworking
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Measurements:
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70.7 cm (height) x 73 cm (width) x 75 cm (depth)
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Subjects:
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advertising and industrial design; contemporary (1960 to present); manufacture; outdoor furniture
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Description:
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The chair was designed by two Italian designers based in Montreal at the time, Fabio Fabiano and Michelange Panzini, in 1972. Production was first carried out by IPL, located in Saint-Damien-de-Buckland, a manufacturer of Injection molded plastic parts. The chair was widely used in motels along the East Coast and Niagara. It was also sold for several years in Sears stores. The Solair chair is made of an enamelled metal base as well as a high density polyethylene plastic shell. The base is black and the shells are available in 9 colors: yellow, white, black, blue, beige, gray, lime green, orange and purple. They are still all made in Canada. (Source: Wikipedia; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page)
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Collection:
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Archivision Addition Module Twelve
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Identifier:
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8A1-FABI-CS-A02
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Rights:
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© Scott Gilchrist, Archivision, Inc.
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